Important Vocabulary to Improve your English-2

swamp
A swamp is an area of very wet land with wild plants growing in it.

blanket
A blanket is a large square or rectangular piece of thick cloth, especially one which you put on a bed to keep you warm.

A blanket of something such as snow is a continuous layer of it which hides what is below or beyond it.

If something such as snow blankets an area, it covers it.

You use blanket to describe something when you want to emphasize that it affects or refers to every person or thing in a group, without any exceptions.
= comprehensive

see also electric blanket, security blanket, wet blanket
If something swamps a place or object, it fills it with water.

If you are swamped by things or people, you have more of them than you can deal with.


ogre
If you refer to someone as an ogre, you are saying in a humorous way that they are very frightening.


erotica
Erotica means works of art that show or describe sexual activity, and which are intended to arouse sexual feelings.


condominium
A condominium is an apartment building in which each apartment is owned by the person who lives there.

A condominium is one of the privately owned apartments in a condominium.


terrain
N-VAR: usu with supp
Terrain is used to refer to an area of land or a type of land when you are considering its physical features.


draft
A draft is an early version of a letter, book, or speech.

When you draft a letter, book, or speech, you write the first version of it.

If you are drafted, you are ordered to serve in the armed forces, usually for a limited period of time.
= conscript
If people are drafted into a place, they are moved there to do a particular job.

The draft is the practice of ordering people to serve in the armed forces, usually for a limited period of time.
= conscription
A draft is a written order for payment of money by a bank, especially from one bank to another.


see also draught

sizeable
Sizeable means fairly large.
= substantial

epidural
An epidural is a type of anaesthetic which is injected into a person's spine so that they cannot feel anything from the waist downwards. Epidurals are sometimes given to women when they are giving birth.


pose
If something poses a problem or a danger, it is the cause of that problem or danger.

If you pose a question, you ask it. If you pose an issue that needs considering, you mention the issue.

If you pose as someone, you pretend to be that person in order to deceive people.

If you pose for a photograph or painting, you stay in a particular position so that someone can photograph you or paint you.

You can say that people are posing when you think that they are behaving in an insincere or exaggerated way because they want to make a particular impression on other people.

A pose is a particular way that you stand, sit, or lie, for example when you are being photographed or painted.